Not a problem as far as I'm concerned other than the fact it might be too late to check this out. It looks like it might be a valid question based on fact rather than some of the other stuff which basically called miso's ethics into question.

Hopefully Miso can shed some light on this, or if somebody else out there has the block in question they might be able to run some tests for us.

Questions on testing techniques are good AFAIC as long as they're not just fanboi rants looking for a testing technique which benefits their own position. That said.... there's often a reason why certain tests are done certain ways and it's often not possible to cover every possible situation.

It's very possible that that affected the results, but something to bear in mind is that when I did my flow rate testing, the Koolance block scored quite well. That leads me to believe that even though performance could have been a little bit better if the barbs had shorter threads, it would NOT have made up for being such a miserable performer.

I may do another block round up in the future, but it won't be soon. That test bench has been dismantled at this point.